lenore582

As said, I’m learning traditional Chinese using Taiwan’s 華語八千詞 database. That’s the 8000 most common Mandarin Chinese characters according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (教育部)

The list I work with has the character's pīnyīn transliteration and meaning in English, but I'd prefer to use 注音符號 (ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ).

this is a list with 8000 entries, I have copies in .ods, .odt and .pdf formats, if it helps.

I'm learning traditional Chinese using Taiwan's 華語八千詞 database. That's the 8000 most common Mandarin Chinese characters according to Taiwan's Ministry of Education (教育部)

It helps much to understand the character's etymologies and to that end I'm using this online database. Problem is, I like studying outdoors where no internet is available, hence the downloadable database I'm looking for.

It doesn't have to include explanations in English, just how characters are decomposed and what variations are used (like heart is written in some characters like 忄as in 忻 instead of using the full radical 心)

Or if somebody knows how to download the whole set of images of the webpage I linked maintaining it's structure...

The database I linked is also available as a book (Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) but is so poorly printed characters are sometimes extremely difficult to read.

My last 2 weeks have been a bit rough:

first there was an insurance issue I am still dealing with because my employer failed to submit relevant information on time. Payment will be effective only after employer submits correct information.

Then my employer claimed that someone had seen me using my cell phone while at work (theoretically, that’s not allowed, but everyone checks the time now and then, and normally it doesn’t affect the quality of the work). They claimed this happened eight weeks ago. I simply replied that I couldn’t remember anything like that.

This week I received a ticket from the transportation authority, where they claim I boarded a ship without a valid ticket, something I am appealing. I’ve never done this before but my friends are helping me. It's not so much about the amount as it is about the feeling of being trampled on. I even showed the employee a copy of my ticket I had on my phone with my whole name, address and price I paid, but he ignored it. I already sent my side of the story to the authority and I’m waiting for an answer.

The thought of being forced to pay for a ticket I paid and showed as a copy of weighs heavily on me. I know I shouldn’t give it more importance that it deserves, but they way that employee treated me, the employee ignoring me, my explanations and the copy I had on my phone gives me an eerie feeling of injustice, that something is broken. I’ve been using that boat for 5 years and never had such an issue before.

If you are more resilient than me, how? I feel lost and as much as I’d like to forget about it I flash back to it, I cannot concentrate and I’m not sleeping very well.

I'd like to be stronger but I'm not.

I’m not saying get a loveless marriage to have children, but do get in a loveless marriage to save on taxes, pool resources, living separately, not having sex, like roommates. I'd be playing the system.

Am I broken?

about history, human nature or science. Examples would be Antony Beevor, Atul Gawande or Carl Sagan.

Let me explain the question: I have several hobbies like playing the guitar, sometimes singing, walking and enjoying nature, reading and lately sunbathing while hearing an audio book.

Playing an instrument, singing and reading end up being tiring, even if I enjoy the music and the reading. I feel I have to stop after being concentrated for an hour.

Quieter hobbies, like walking to enjoy nature end up being boring as well. The only completely passive hobby I have is sunbathing and it all depends on how interesting the audio book is.

Sometimes I’d like to practice a hobby, but I’m so tired I end up lazying around, watching a stupid youtube video but thinking I should do something else.

What else could I do? Any other completely passive hobbies?

No drugs, no alcohol.